Sandra Bland

The tragic death of 28-year-old Sandra Bland is a sensitive topic that one would assume is off limits from cruel disregard or disrespect from any…

A mother of eight is the fifth Black woman to be found dead in a jail cell since mid-July. Mount Vernon, New York native Raynette Turner died in…

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — Texas authorities on Tuesday released several hours of footage showing Sandra Bland during her three days in jail, saying they wanted to dispel rumors that she was dead before arriving there. Waller County Judge Trey Duhon said such conspiracy theories — including one that Bland’s mug shot was taken after her […]

Fox & Friends co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is known for making comments with very little intelligence and she continued her cycle with her attempt to justify Sandra Bland‘s arrest. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! “What if, I mean, there are times, I’m sure, someone has, in the history of this land, used a cigarette against a […]

Elizabeth Hasselbeck has brought a new theory in to the Sandra Bland case as she feels that Bland might have been asked to put out her cigarette by Trooper Brian Encinia because she might used the cigarette as a weapon. Hasselbeck’s speculation came while discussing footage from a dashcam video of Bland’s arrest with former […]

  I cannot tell you how many people said to me about Sandra Bland’s death being officially ruled a suicide, “We just don’t do that.” And by ‘we’ they mean black people. We can debate whether she took her own life. Certainly her family doesn’t believe she did. But to say that ‘we,’ black people […]

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — An initial toxicology report for Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas jail cell three days after her arrest during a traffic stop, raises the possibility that she may have used marijuana while in custody, two experts said. The amount of THC, one of the active components of marijuana, in Bland’s […]

Noting the historically contentious relationship between Black communities and law enforcement, Attorney General Loretta Lynch discussed how Sandra Bland’s death is a prime example of…

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (AP) — Hundreds have gathered in Southeast Texas for a vigil and march in memory of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman found dead in a jail days after her arrest during a traffic stop. Houston TV station KPRC reports attendees met at a Prairie View church Sunday, then marched across Prairie View […]

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — In the searing 100-degree Texas heat, Sylvester Nunn uses three worn beach umbrellas to protect himself and the produce piled in the bed of his old Chevy pickup truck as he carries on a generations-old summer tradition. The 78-year-old is selling watermelons by the roadside just outside Hempstead, where the perfect […]

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently weighed in on the arrest of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old Chicago woman who was arrested after a traffic stop…

In the 10 days since the mysterious death of Sandra Bland in a Texas jail cell, speculation around how exactly the 28-year-old Illinois woman died…